Path: bloom-picayune.mit.edu!enterpoop.mit.edu!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!americast.com!americast.com!americast-post Newsgroups: americast.twt.life From: americast-post@AmeriCast.Com Organization: American Cybercasting Approved: americast-post@AmeriCast.com Subject: Headline Article Date: Tue, 24 Nov 92 14:12:10 EST Message-ID: Lines: 88 \SE E;LIFE;MERRIE-GO-ROUND \BY Merrie Morris \CR THE WASHINGTON TIMES INAUGURAL BEAT Kenny G. says that, at the request of a fellow sax-player, he'll keep Jan. 20 free. The jazz musician, who played a duet with Bill Clinton at a campaign fund-raiser, says Bill has asked him to play that night at an inaugural ball. FAMILY VALUES A new JFK bio is out, with lots of fresh dirt to till. The revelation most likely to titillate: John Kennedy contracted gonorrhea while at Harvard. But author Nigel Hamilton says his work is not fodder for the tabloids. Nigel's a history prof, and "JFK: Reckless Youth" is a studious effort, part of a biographical trilogy, he says. Nigel is a big fan of JFK's, calling him "one of the great 20th century heroes." However, he holds a low opinion of parents Rose and Joe Sr. The way Nigel tells it, Rose hated Joe and stayed away from him as much as possible. But her children suffered through her absences. Nigel says that although Jack was extremely sick as a child, Rose never visited him either in the hospital or at boarding school. Instead, she managed to go abroad 19 times in three years. As for Joe, he comes off as little more than an ambitious, bigoted, cowardly monster. Serious work or not, no wonder "Reckless Youth" was snapped up as the makings for a miniseries. STAR SEARCH Winona Ryder, basking in the afterglow of "Dracula," is doing her best to squelch rumors that she and Johnny Depp have split. She paid the International Star Registry $45 to have a celestial body named for her sweetie and another $44 to get a certificate saying so, says People magazine. * Tom Cruise remembers what it's like to be young and less than hyper-rich. At dinner Saturday night in Memphis, he spotted a table of 10 University of Mississippi students in tuxes and formals, on their way to a prom. As he left, Tom asked the restaurant owner to put the students' tab on his bill. The students weren't told about his largesse until after they'd ordered. Tom's in Memphis filming the thriller "The Firm"; his latest, the military courtroom drama "A Few Good Men," opens Dec. 18. ANOTHER MIA CULPA? After Woody Allen's appearance Sunday on "60 Minutes," Mia Farrow says it's time for a little quiet. In a statement issued through lawyer Eleanor B. Alter to WNYW-TV, Miss Farrow said: "It is tragic and outrageous that Woody Allen continues to injure people he professes to love, including his own son. "The courts have asked both parties to refrain from this kind of publicity. I will continue to abide by that request, and therefore, do not feel it is proper to personally respond to his gross distortions and untruths. But I will do so in the appropriate legal forum, at the appropriate time." There was no mention of whether she considered the lengthy Vanity Fair article detailing her side of the story to be "this kind of publicity." DOG-GONE IT John Major - the dog, not the politician - has been banned from the English pub the Hen and Chickens. His baying of the song "My Way" "was putting folk off their beer," says Martin Fennings, landlord of the establishment in Oldbury in central England. The dog's owner, Eric Templeton, named the Staffordshire bull terrier after Britain's prime minister. "Several customers told me he sounded as boring as the real John Major," he was quoted in the Sun newspaper yesterday. This article is copyright 1992 The Washington Times. Redistribution to other sites is not permitted except by arrangement with American Cybercasting Corporation. For more information, send-email to usa@AmeriCast.COM